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In the first minutes of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in February 1980, the problems of non-A non-B hepatitis (NANBH) are discussed:

"There was a problem of non-A, non-B hepatitis related to freeze-dried factor VIII and IX, both of NHS and commercial types imported from Austria and the USA. ...[Deleted name] described a recent study at the Royal Free Hospital of 11 selected patients of whom 8 received commercial concentrate, 2 NHS concentrate, and 1 cryoprecipitate." (page 2, paragraph 4, lines 1-6)

"Experiments so far showed that there were probably 2 types of non-A, non-B hepatitis associated with factor VIII. The second type had been produced by the same batch of 'HEMOFIL' which was associated with the Bournemouth outbreak in 1974." (Page 3, point 4)

Note: These minutes also show that Factor IX was being made by Immuno Ltd. in Austria; which would therefore constitute a commercial import with regards to Factor IX. (Page 3, point 3.4)

The following list shows the brands and trade names of Factor VIII concentrate used by UK haemophiliacs in 1980 and 1981 (breakdown by manufacturer):

Manufacturer	Trade Name
Abbott	Profilate
Armour	Factorate
Cutter	Koate
Hyland	Hemofil
Immuno	Kryobulin
Speywood	Humanate
Hyland	Interhem

Note: We would like to draw attention to the fact that the Immuno is listed here as manufacturing a Factor VIII product under the trade name Kryobulin. As we are aware that Immuno Ltd. was a commercial company, we can safely describe 'Kryobulin' as a commercial product. (See the additional source and the related entries link below).